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Adventure Maker features (editions and platforms comparison):

TARGET PLATFORM
(the platform you want to create software
for)

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

Windows

PSP

iPhone
and iPod touch

Create
hotspots to move from a frame to another.
+ Use both transparent and graphical hotspots.

Use
custom cursors to give a feedback to the player when there
is a clickable hotspot under the pointer.

Create
puzzles without any programming by easily creating and using
boolean variables to activate / deactivate transparent hotspots and
to show / hide graphical hotspots.
+ Change the value of one or more variables when the player clicks
a hotspot.
+ Bind a hotspot to a set of variables.

Display text messages when the player clicks a hotspot.

Use timers to go to another frame after X seconds.

Display animations by using animated GIFs (no animated
transparency on Windows).
+ Associate them with hotspots so that they appear/disappear when
the variables change.
+ On Windows, change the speed of the animated-GIFs (if no hard-coded
speed found)

Display
animations with videos:
+ Use as many videos as you want in the same scene.
+ Support for AVI, MPG, WMV, and more.
+ Possibility to include CODECs in the package of the software you
create.
+ Associate videos with hotspots.
+ Play once or loop.
+ Change their volume.
+ Change their playback speed.
+ Have the audio track seamlessly mixed with the other sound effects.

"Load game" and "Save game" features
built-in.

Customizable inventory system
+ Pick up items when a hotspot is clicked.
+ Drag-and-drop items on hotspots to make something happen.
+ Use items on each other and combine items.
+ Change the inventory background, inventory button, items spacing,
etc.
+ Drop-down inventory or static.
+ Appear/disappear progressively.
+ Include a menu button inside the inventory, and change its appearance.
+ Use icons of any size for the inventory items.

Full-screen real time transitions when moving from
a frame to another (alphablending or slide)

Multi-channel sound system
+ Play up to 7 sounds at the same time
+ Fade-in / fade-out / cross-fade effects
+ Options to loop forever, change volume...
+ Native support for MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, and more.
+ Support for OGG Vorbis (CODEC required)

Create conversations with the easy-to-use Dialog
Wizard
+ Make it so that an answer causes more questions to appear.

Add real-time effects such as rippling water and
smoke.

Add text to the frame background directly from the
Adventure Maker interface (right-click on the frame background).

Create hotspots that are common to multiple frames
(whether they are transparent or graphical) by using the "Runtime
Frames Merging" feature.

Go to specific frames when a savegame is resumed
by using the "Set Resume Locations" feature.

Create third-person games with the included third-person
plugin.
+ Possibility to create your own character.
+ Set the speed of the character (global).
+ Make the character appear smaller when far away and bigger when
close.
+ Choose the position and the orientation of the character when looking
at an object, when moving to another frame, etc.
+ Very easy to use.

Create 360-degree interactive panoramas (cylindrical)
with the included 360-degree panorama plugin.
+ Integrate graphical hotspots just like in non-panoramic games.
+ Integrate AVI videos like in non-panoramic games (the videos are
seamlessly projected on the 3D cylinder surface).
+ Switch between panoramic and non-panoramic frames in the same game.
+ Use images up to 2048 x 2048.
+ Very easy to use.

Use scripting (VBScript) to greatly expand the power
of Adventure Maker.
+ Easy-to-learn, standard, reliable VBScript
+ Syntax highlighting.
+ Built-in syntax check and error handling routines.
+ Change the code during runtime (global procedures only).
+ Execute any code during runtime for debugging.
+ Interact with and control the Adventure Maker objects, variables,
inventory, and much more.
+ Interact with external executables or with ActiveX components to
add new features.

Embed Flash movies by using the included Flash plugin.
+ Check if the Flash Player is installed.
+ Interoperate between the Flash movie and the Adventure Maker scripting
engine by sending messages from the former to the latter.

Create plugins or use plugins created by other people.
+ Built-in easy-to-use GUI designer, to easily add new textboxes and
buttons to the "hotspot properties" and the "frame
properties" windows.
+ Create encrypted plugins so that others cannot see the source code
(to create commercial plugins for example).
+ Bundle the plugin with a configuration utility.
+ Interact with external executables or with ActiveX components to
add new features.

Run from CD/DVD: Distribute your game on CD/DVD and
make it read the files directly from the CD/DVD instead of the hard
disk (avoids having to install the whole game) (basic installation
still required).

Support for multiple CDs/DVDs (when a file is needed,
the game tells the player to insert the CD/DVD number X).

Create very large projects (more than 150 frames).

One-click compilation resulting in files that can
be played when Adventure Maker Free Edition is installed (no VBScript
/ plugins).

One-click compilation resulting in full-featured stand-alone
files.

Creation of a full-featured installation wizardthat allows installing and uninstalling the produced
software on the end-user computer.
+ Creates icons in the Start Menu, including an icon for an optional
"Readme" file.
+ Displays a customizable license agreement
+ Can execute additional files, such as the installer for a CODEC
or for the Flash Player.+ Can be translated into other languages
(the package already includes: English,
French, German, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian - more languages can
be added).

Make money with the software you create with Adventure
Maker (directly or indirectly, by placing advertisements on your website,
by selling the software, by using the software as a way to attract
more customers to another product, or by any other means).

means that the feature is available both in the Free Edition and in the
Full Edition (any use).means
that the feature is available only in the Full Edition (any use).
means that the feature is available only in the Full Edition labelled
"for Commercial Use".

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